Musco Family Promise
Our Promise is Simple: We Make a Good Thing Even Better
It’s a mantra passed down by our founder and repeated by everyone within our company. Making a good thing even better guides us — whether that’s a sun-kissed black ripe olive from California, an authentic Kalamata from Greece, or even the way we do business — we’re always working to ensure we’re bringing out the best in ourselves and others.
Olive Experts Since 18th Century, Sicily
We are an olive family with deep roots, tracing our olive heritage all the way back to 18th-century Sicily, where our founder, Nicolo Musco’s, great-great-great grandparents first cultivated a passion for olives. That olive expertise was passed from generation to generation, until Nicolo came to America and started Musco Family Olive Company. Still family-owned and family-run today, Nicolo’s values of quality, integrity and constant improvement still guide us. For generations, from our family to yours, our goal has always been to bring the best olives to your table.
The Best Olives from the Best Orchards
Not all olives are created equal. You need the right trees, the right growing conditions, and yes, the right farmers, to create an olive worthy of the Musco family name. Our family of olive experts goes to great lengths to grow and source the best olives around the world — from the sunny California fields where our black ripe olives thrive, to the warm, Mediterranean hills where our gourmet olives are grown. Our competitors can’t say the same, often sourcing the cheapest varieties, compromising quality and consistency. With Musco Family olives, you can rest assured there are no mystery olives in our cans, jars and cups. We grow and source only the best, because when you start with something good, you can only make it better.
450+
California olive farmers we have long-term relationships with.
We Care, and Generate Nearly Zero Waste
We’re always looking for smart ways to make a positive impact on our communities and the Earth. A few examples: we’ve upcycled more than 2 billion gallons of the excess water from our olive-curing process, using it to irrigate an innovative, salt-loving crop that’s a nutritious feed for livestock. We work to generate less waste over the course of our production process, and to divert as much waste as we can from landfills—including converting organic waste into biofuel rather than sending it to landfills. We track both the overall solid waste we produce each year, as well as the percentage of that waste we are able to divert from landfills.
We’re also proud to have decades-long partnerships with local, family farms, keeping American farmers in business. Each ripe olive we sell has a carbon footprint that’s 12x smaller than our competitor’s Hojiblanca olives shipped overseas from Spain. That’s because we grow our olives locally in California, drive them to our processing plant, and then to our American warehouses.* At Musco, every decision matters, so we try to use ours to do the most good.
* Carbon footprint calculated using EPA Emissions Factors for Greenhouse Gas Inventories, based on shipping competitor’s olives 100 miles by truck to Valencia, Spain, 8000 miles by ship to San Francisco, CA, and 164 miles by truck to Corning, CA, compared with shipping Musco olives 150 miles by truck to Corning, CA. These calculations have not been verified by a third party.
2 Billion
Gallons of excess water recycled to irrigate NyPa grass (which cows love to eat!).
